8-letter words containing n, a, d, c
- candidly — frank; outspoken; open and sincere: a candid critic.
- candling — a long, usually slender piece of tallow or wax with an embedded wick that is burned to give light.
- candolle — Augustin Pyrame de. 1778–1841, Swiss botanist; his Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) introduced a new system of plant classification
- candyass — a timid or cowardly person; sissy.
- candying — any of a variety of confections made with sugar, syrup, etc., often combined with chocolate, fruit, nuts, etc.
- candyman — a drug-dealer, esp one who targets young people
- canfield — a gambling game adapted from a type of patience
- canidate — Eye dialect of candidate.
- cankered — (esp of fruit trees) affected by canker
- cannoned — Simple past tense and past participle of cannon.
- cannoted — a form of ·can not.
- canoodle — If two people are canoodling, they are kissing and holding each other a lot.
- canopied — A canopied building or piece of furniture is covered with a roof or a piece of material supported by poles.
- cant dog — cant hook
- cantered — an easy gallop.
- cantoned — Simple past tense and past participle of canton.
- canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
- carangid — any marine percoid fish of the family Carangidae, having a compressed body and deeply forked tail. The group includes the jacks, horse mackerel, pompano, and pilot fish
- cardamon — the aromatic seed capsules of a tropical Asian plant, Elettaria cardamomum, of the ginger family, used as a spice or condiment and in medicine.
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- cardenas — Lázaro (ˈlaθaro). 1895–1970, Mexican statesman and general; president of Mexico (1934–40)
- cardigan — A cardigan is a knitted woollen sweater that you can fasten at the front with buttons or a zip.
- cardinal — A cardinal is a high-ranking priest in the Catholic church.
- careened — Simple past tense and past participle of careen.
- cartland — Dame Barbara (Hamilton). 1901–2000, British novelist, noted for her prolific output of popular romantic fiction
- catenoid — the geometrical surface generated by rotating a catenary about its axis
- caudling — Present participle of caudle.
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavitand — (chemistry) any of several classes of macrocycle that have a shape containing a cavity in which a guest molecule or ion may fit.
- cayenned — sprinkled or seasoned with cayenne
- centiday — One one-hundredth (1/100) of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
- chaldean — a member of an ancient Semitic people who controlled S Babylonia from the late 8th to the late 7th century bc
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chandler — a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- chicaned — Simple past tense and past participle of chicane.
- choanoid — (anatomy) funnel-shaped; applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the eyeball in many reptiles and mammals.
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- cladding — Cladding is a covering of tiles, wooden boards, or other material that is fixed to the outside of a building to protect it against bad weather or to make it look more attractive.
- clarinda — a female given name, form of Clara.
- claudine — a female given name, form of Claudia.
- cleansed — Simple past tense and past participle of cleanse.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- clubhand — congenital deformity of the hand
- clubland — A city's clubland is the area that contains all the best nightclubs.
- cnidaria — an alternative name for the invertebrate phylum Coelenterata, giving emphasis to the stinging structures as characteristic of the phylum.
- coattend — to attend jointly